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Leonard Moore

d. 1959

British literary agent

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About Leonard Moore

Leonard Moore was a literary agent.

Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959

Career A partner of Christy & Moore and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd., ), Gordon Campbell, Mary Butts, Georgette Heyer (for nearly 30 years from 1922 Ruby M. Ayres, Gareth Jones, Wilfred Grenfell, and Ruth Collie.

Orwell It was in a letter to Moore, in November 1932, regarding the future publication of Down and Out in Paris and London, that Eric Blair first came up with the pseudonym "George Orwell".

According to the historian Daniel J. Leab, some 500 of Orwell's letters to his agent have survived, of which nearly 100 were acquired by the Lilly Library in 1959.

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Important facts

Died
1959
Occupation
Literary agent

Frequently asked questions

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British literary agent

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Leonard Moore died in 1959.

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Leonard Moore was a literary agent.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Leonard Moore

· Wikidata: Q15999351

· DBpedia: Leonard Moore (literary agent)

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